Posted
12/16/2004 05:42:00 PM
by Douglas
Why is it that this headline fills me with something less than
joy?Top U.S. official says Bush plans 'liberation of Cuba' in second term
President George W. Bush will be committed during his second term to the "liberation of Cuba" by extending moral and political support to the Cuban people, a top State Department official said Friday.
Roger Noriega, who heads the department's Latin American bureau, also said once Cuban President Fidel Castro is no longer in power, the United States is ready to support broad economic and political changes in Cuba "to ensure that vestiges of the regime don't hold on."
Two questions: Is he going to
liberate Cuba like he
liberated Iraq? That one didn't turn out too well.
Secondly, your head of the State Department's Latin American Bureau's last name is
Noriega? Keep in mind that I have to automatically assume that I'm a dumbass, but am I the
only one that's paying attention? Noriega, really?
This is the line that really cracked me up:
With Castro's tumble, Noriega said, the Cuban people had to start thinking about their leader's mortality, as well as their own lives.
So, before Castro fell down, the average Cuban on the street
wasn't thinking of their own life?
But is this ever going to happen? Sadly, probably not, and especially not under a Republican administration. The expatriate gusanos in Florida have quite a bit of political pull, for some reason, and they all pull against Cuba.